uTorrent for Mac beta officially released

I updated to Transmission 1.42 two days ago, and it's not working. It can't find peers, and won't download a thing, including Pirate Bay top 100 torrents.

Really disappointing since it used to be brilliant in almost every way. I've downgraded to 1.40, but I'm getting inconsistent and unbelievably crap speeds. (0.7kb/s, anyone?)

Downloaded uTorrent beta today, and whilst it's not as attractive, it's working.

sorry but how do i download utorrent for mac from here

The uTorrent for Mac gets mad props from me since The learning curve is minimal, its simple to use, it has a clean interface, and It works fast. I think those responsible for the building of these "for the people" P2P apps deserve medals/awards/honors/recignition and financial compensation. I thought napster and morpheus was cool but "uTorrent and the P2P's of today rule" as far as I'm concerned. See you netizens on the web.
We are living in the best of times.

So I dumped Transmission thinking that Mac µTorrent would have all of the options and configurability of its Windows counterpart. Lo and behold, it's just as watered-down as Transmission.

Can't add multiple trackers, can't set lazy bitfield or any number of other options to get around ISP traffic filters, etc.

It's a sad day when Azureus is the best option.

Yea, but the software is better (i.e. more full-featured).

µTorrent is the only thing I miss about Windows. Time to dump Transmission!

I have used almost all of the torrent clients available for mac (Tomato, Vuze, Trans., Bits on Wheels, etc.) and have had parallels almost solely for uTorrent, but then Transmission started to improve and then I stuck with it. I downloaded uTorrent yesterday for interest sake and it takes up 90+% of my processor (Macbook), so if they don't get this together, I might just go back to old reliable (Trans.). Good so far though for uT.

tomato, tomaato

Okay I'd like to take part of my rant back on page 2:

This beta is available to anyone, but you have to manually visit http://mac.utorrent.com/beta.

If you were to click on the "Mac version coming soon" link that's on the main site you'd be directed to the form where you'd enter your email address, thus spitting at you that URL above.

With that said, I've yet to use it more than my initial test, though it's already really well polished for what features are included in this beta.

Transmission has a major flaw. That is how it handles retries, giving false stats. Many torrent sites that require a ratio have banned Transmission and will ban you if you're caught using it.

µTorrent is the gold standard, and is considerable faster. Stop living in the past people.

Even though I waited for uTorrent for Mac, now once it's released I can't find any true reason to switch to if from Transmission. It has nice interface, but Transmission has all the features I already need, while uTorrent has to improve a lot.